Ivan Matejčić

Ivan Matejčić was born in Pazin in 1950. He obtained his degree in Art History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1973, where he also received his PhD in 2007. Since 1977, he has worked as a conservator and art historian at the Regional Institute for the Protection of Monuments in Split. From 1982 to 1988, he was one of the editors of „Likovne enciklopedije Jugoslavije“ at the „Miroslav Krleža“ Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb. He was director of the Poreština Regional Museum (1988–1991), then director of the Regional Institute for the Protection of Monuments in Rijeka (1991–2000), and head of the Conservation Department in Pula (2000–2008). Since 1997, he has taught as an external associate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, and since 2009 he has been a professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, where he retired in 2015 as an associate professor. He is the author of the study thanks to which the Euphrasian Basilica was nominated for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List, to which it was added in 1997. He has published around ten books, catalogues and brochures, around fifty scholarly and professional papers, and several dozen encyclopedic articles. He is the editor and co-author of the series of books „Umjetnička baština istarske crkve“ as well as „Korpusa ranosrednjovjekovne skulpture“, for which he authored two volumes. He has received several domestic and international awards: „Vicko Andrić“ for conservation research and the presentation of the Carolingian layer of architecture and art of the 8th and 9th centuries in Istria (2000), the European Union’s „Europa Nostra“ award for the restoration of the episcopal complex in Poreč and the establishment of the diocesan museum (2001), and the „Radovan Ivančević“ award of the Croatian Association of Art Historians (annual award in 2006 and lifetime achievement award in 2026)…